Improvement in weather-strips for doors



` which is inserted inthe door.

UNITE-D STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

cHEsTEE MEEEITT,- 0E E UTLAND, VERMONT, Assreivon ToHIMsE'LE AND `DANIEL D. WHITKEE, 0E sAME PLACE.

IVIPROVEIVIEN'I` IN WEATHER-STRIPS FOR DOORS?.

i Spe-cilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,4211, dated May 27, 1862.

.To all whom `i may concern:

f Be it known that I, CHESTER MEERITT, of Rutland, in the countyof Rutland and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Weather-Strip or Valve for Rendering Doors and Windows Tight,so as to perfectly exclude `the air,-and yet permit their being opened with facility; andI declare that the following J is a full, clear,`and accurate description of the facilitate` its being insertedin the door and to holdit in its place, apiece of tin or other metal, b, may be bentso as to clasp one edge of it on both sides andso `as to cover all that part of it l a squarecornered recess, e, cut intothe edge secure by Letters Patent, is* To hold the of the door through the whole length of it onehalf an inch wide and one-eighth of an inch deep, but wide enough and deep enough for the valve to liein when bent over. When the door is closed, the valve will press against the casing and exclude the air. Shouldl the door be swollen by Water or the joint become more close from any other cause, the valve will lie in the recess along side of it and offer no impedi'rnent to shutting the door, though it stilly presses against the casing. Should the door shrink, on the other hand, the valve will continue to press against the casing if properly constructed.

The same device may be used to render windows tight with such alterations as are ob,- vlous.

` What I claim as myinvcntion, and desireto A weather-strip of india-rubber guarded upon `one edge with a thin clasp ot' metal, which is inserted into a narrow crevice in the edge of thedoor or window, and having on each side of it a groove capable of receiving it when turned down, the whole being constructed sul stautially as described.

CHESTER MERRITT.

Witnesses:

G. I. HANNUM, L. N. HARLOW. 

